Otis R. Anthony African Americans in Florida Oral History Project

Interviewee

Jessie West

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Interviewer

Otis R. Anthony

Publication Date

3-11-2009

Date

1978-09-13

Abstract

Jessie West describes how the Depression affected African Americans in Tampa. She also discusses living conditions in Quincy, Florida during the 1910s, and describes a lynching that took place there between 1917 and 1918.

Keywords

African Americans, Great Depression (1929), Lynching

Extent

00:15:15; 5 page transcript

Subject: geographic

Hillsborough County (Fla.); Gadsden County (Fla.); Tampa (Fla.); Quincy (Fla.)

Language

English

Digital Date

2009

Media Type

Oral histories

Format

Digital only

Identifier

A31-00053

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